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November 16, 2007 06:48:35am |
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Re: For Robthewordsmith |
Hey Rob,
Yeah I knew there was a good chance this would be used in evidence against you and your kinsfolk, and I apologise for that, but it's such a surreal story that I had to put it on here. I mean, why was he continuing when the cleaners were knocking on the door and getting spare keys ? I'm a cyclist and I'm prepared to put up with the occasional saddle sniffer, but I really don't wouldn't want my acoustic motorbike kidnapped and abused in this fashion.
And if our American cousins get too high and mighty about this tell them to check out the Accident and Emergency records over there for strange incidents with vacuum cleaners !
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 07:03:00am |
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Re: For Robthewordsmith |
Or Richard Gere and one unfortunate gerbil.
OK, maybe that particular story is urban legend, but my sister-in-law is an ER nurse and has relayed some rather disturbing stories of people being brought in with all kinds of foreign objects lodged in various orafices.
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William Tell |
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November 16, 2007 07:37:59am |
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Re: For Robthewordsmith |
Ahem, strictly speaking, that's "orificia"
Carry on, my friend, mindful of openings and otherwise.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 07:47:43am |
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Re: For Robthewordsmith |
I knew I could count on you to bring your expertise on all things dark, dank and unmentionable to bear on the issue. I am forever in your debt.
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robthewordsmith |
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November 16, 2007 08:01:39am |
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Re: Wrong, Tell! |
orificia is the plural of orificium (make a mouth), which as doubtless you know, is the Latin root from which orifice is derived. Orifices is the correct plural of orifice.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 08:09:26am |
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Re: Wrong, Tell! |
Thank you for pointing this out. I now transfer Tell's former title of "Omnipotent Guardian of All That Is Dark, Recessed and Illegal in 8 States" to you. Congratulations.
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robthewordsmith |
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November 16, 2007 08:15:52am |
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Re: Wrong, Tell! |
Sadly a reluctance to wake up with my sensitive portions wired to the Bagram AFB Christmas tree lights prevents me from taking up this post you so generously bestow. But I thank you for your thoughtfulness.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 08:25:58am |
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Re: Wrong, Tell! |
50 bonus points to you for effortless working a EDIT HERE into the discussion. Kudos.
I have been humbled and brought back down to earth in a firey ball of shame like the mythical Icarus. Or the Scottish bike-lover, either will do.
This post was modified by SomeDarkHollow on 2007-11-16 16:25:58
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robthewordsmith |
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November 16, 2007 08:28:47am |
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Re: Wrong, Hollow |
Hang your head in shame, Hollow!
Bagram AFB is manned by the The 455th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF.
-50 points to you
This post was modified by robthewordsmith on 2007-11-16 16:28:47
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 08:35:02am |
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Re: Wrong, Hollow |
I must have been thinking of RAF Lakenheath.
I'm slipping.
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William Tell |
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November 16, 2007 09:01:09am |
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Re: Not so fast, Rob |
I will accept apologies as soon as you are done consulting your medical dictionaries (it's what I do):
orificia (or·i·fi·cia) (or”ĭ-fish´e-ə) [L.] plural of orificium.
or·i·fi·ci·um (ôr-fsh-m)
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An orifice.
orificium (or·i·fi·ci·um) (or”ĭ-fish´e-əm) pl. orifi´cia [L.] an opening or orifice, especially the entrance or outlet of any cavity or tube. Called also ostium [TA].
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robthewordsmith |
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November 16, 2007 09:08:43am |
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Re: Come off it, Tell! |
What are you babbling about you aged freedom fighter?
orificia is the plural of orificium
orifices is the plural of orifice
orificium = orifice? yes
orificia is the plural of orifice?
No, sir! No way, no how.
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William Tell |
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November 16, 2007 09:19:04am |
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Re: Equivalents and Scots |
If A = B, and B = C, then A = C.
I suppose you think "comprise" is a synonym of "compose" too...
Damn you new age writers!
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robthewordsmith |
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November 16, 2007 09:31:03am |
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Re: Oh orificium, up yours! |
One last time.
Orificium and orifice are two different words, albeit with a shared meaning and a historical tie, one to the the other. The fact that orificium may stand in place of orifice in your medical textbooks has no bearing whatsoever on the plural form of the latter. This is not 'new age' writing this is standard English. Now, admit your error or I'll come and beat sense into you with all twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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William Tell |
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November 16, 2007 07:49:01pm |
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Re: You first. |
My bad--outdated scientific luddite that I am, couldn't let go.
Of course you are right, they are, REALLY, two different words, and you can find any number of dictionaries to support your position, BUT having been lectured far too long by aging instructors concerned with Latin and Greek courses focused on arcane etymologies, I was told a few times that "orifice," having been derived from the L "orificium," is "best" (not popular, as you attest) made plural as via the construction noted, "orificia". Roots and their derivatives can share a common outcome in such constructions without dire consequence.
But, I will submit to your take on what is accepted today; recall I live in the past...
I shall close all my orificia.
This post was modified by William Tell on 2007-11-17 03:49:01
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 11:05:46am |
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Re: You first. |
See the little deer.
Does the deer have any doe?
Yeah, 2 bucks.
- The Howard and Fine School of Etiquette
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 16, 2007 09:23:10am |
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Re: Come off it, Tell! |
OK, gentlemen, I'm afraid that your obsession with shadowy chasms of illicit delight has become disturbing. Remember the children!
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William Tell |
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November 16, 2007 12:37:34pm |
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Re: Come off it, Tell! |
I had to finally grant him the "modernity wins" angle or I think he would have blown an orificium or even an orifice. Those cranky subject headings were upsetting my dog.
At least I held your mantle for a few shining moments of glory. Was it 15 minutes?
I certainly hope so.
You know, though, "deer" and "data" and even "fish" are addt'l examples of my anal retentive ire gone bad...if you start saying "data" can be singular, even if Rob says "but I read it in 20 dictionaries", I am gonna crap...
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